Each section must decide which ideas they will pursue for the 6 ideas milestone. You will need to plan how the digital posters for the presentation will be prepared and presented. You may also want to spend part of the team meeting period doing additional research.
What is due?
Individual: Description of observation exercise in design notebook. IDEATE! And keep ideating. The more ideas the better, even if they are just a line in your physical design notebook. Design notebooks will be checked by your instructors (this contributes to final grade).Team: Create and organize DHF in your team google drive. Focus on preparing for the 6 ideas milestone.
Preparation Before Team Meeting #2
Make sure that you understand the requirements for the 6 ideas milestone. A helpful video is linked here (with the exception that this year we are doing 6 ideas in 6 minutes and posters will be digital slides instead of printed).Be prepared to give a short summary of your new idea from the observation exercise which will be discussed in class on Monday 9/19.. Slides are not required, but you should have a sketch to pinup.
Be prepared to give a short summary of background work for the idea areas you were assigned in Team Meeting #1 (e.g., possible customers and their key needs, relevant existing products, market potential, and some technical feasibility analysis). The 2.009 library page has many excellent resources for research.
The system integrators should prepare an agenda for the team meeting and make sure the room is set up (name cards on the table, etc.) before the start of the team meeting. Make use of the screens in the room to display any relevant meeting materials.
We recommend using Adobe Illustrator, or a similar vector-based program to design your poster. Every MIT student has full access to Adobe Creative Suite, which includes Adobe Illustrator, through MIT. The license requests are processed once daily, so be sure to apply for your license early! Linkedinlearning has excellent tutorials (MIT has a membership). You may also want to go to the sketching tutorial on Tuesday evening at 7pm (run by TA Jordan Tappa) and/or practice sketching. We strongly suggest that everyone requests a license, download the software, and try it out a little before the team meeting.
Before the team meeting (or sometime during the team meeting), the tool officers should obtain the combination for the team's tool box from Steve Haberek (Pappalardo Staff) and provide this information to the team.
Team Meeting #2 Activities
Each group of students should present sketches of their new idea that is based upon the observation exercise. This should take no more than 30-40 minutes for the entire team. Be sure that the idea sketches are pinned up.
Your system integrators should present an agenda and estimated timeline for the meeting. Adjust the agenda accordingly, based upon feedback from section members or the section instructor.
The system integrator should obtain a volunteer to take minutes for the meeting (unless your team has chosen a permanent scribe). The person taking minutes needs to post a relevant summary shortly after the team meeting, either on Slack or uploaded into the team google drive. This person could be the information officer.
Have the team members responsible for additional background work related to ideas that were identified during team meeting last week present their findings. If new ideas were developed over the week they should be discussed as well.
Decide on the 6 ideas that will be presented by your section at the 6-ideas presentation.
For selecting your top 6 ideas, we recommend:
Develop a short list of up to 8 ideas, drawing from the most promising project identified by your team/subteam..
Develop a small number of key assessment criteria (no more than 6). Things to consider might include aspects that define a product opportunity: novelty and excitement about the idea; clarity and strength of customer need; market/business potential; and aspects of feasibility, including technical interest/excitement, ability to test, and appropriateness of scope. Additionally, you might want to consider educational experience in the context of this class. You must be able to identify at least one person or "client" who represents your customer. This person needs to be easy to contact for advice throughout the term.
Do not just hold a vote asking 'which do you like' to select ideas. Use a rational process (such as the Pugh method) to select 6 ideas. Your team instructor may need to remind you how this method works. An example Pugh chart is at the bottom of the page. Choosing an appropriate datum (reference idea) is important... one that everyone on the team clearly understands, and is neither the strongest or weakest concept.
Example Pugh Chart for comparing fasteners. "S" means same.
Remember this is tool for sparking discussion and debate, and not a pure rating system!
Organize task forces to prepare for the 6-Ideas Presentation. Decide who will be presenting each idea, who will work on the pitches for each idea, who will be working on the poster designs, and who will be preparing the research/citation sheet.
Be sure to note on the team management site (Slack) which ideas were chosen for the 6-Ideas Presentation, who is responsible for what, and what your desired timeline for completing each task is.If there is time left in the team meeting, task forces may start working.
Other Notes
After the team meetings this week, your team TA will take photos of students missed the week prior.
DHF
For your team DHF (google drive), you should start creating the following folders and populate those you can (some will change depending on final selection).
–Design Input (why are you making this product)
–Product Spec
–Purchase Orders
–Inspection Results
–Testing Results
–Build Documents (what is used to actually build the product)
–Design Review Documents
–Team meeting notes
–Anything else you want to include
